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Weasel Work

Weasel Work. Answer these questions:. #1. What features of a weasel’s existence make it wild? Make it violent?. #2 . What instances in the text show a display of weasels being “obedient to instinct”?. #3.

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Weasel Work

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  1. Weasel Work Answer these questions:

  2. #1 • What features of a weasel’s existence make it wild? Make it violent?

  3. #2 • What instances in the text show a display of weasels being “obedient to instinct”?

  4. #3 • At what point does the author start speaking about herself? What is the focus of her observations?

  5. #4 • Why is this shift to first person important? What significance do these observations hold?

  6. #5 • What features of Hollins Pond does Dillard mention?

  7. #6 • What evidence is there in paragraphs 5 and 6 regarding human presence at the pond?

  8. #7 • Dillard is careful to place these opposing descriptions (of the natural and man made) side-by-side. How does this juxtaposition fit with or challenge what we have already read? Why might she have chosen this point in the text for these descriptions?

  9. Journal #2 • Describe how Dillard connects the constructed world with the world of nature in paragraphs 5 and 6 of her essay.

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